IIT Palakkad & IIT Tirupati to commence classes from August 2015

Students can apply from tomorrow

The two new Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) campuses coming at Palakkad and Tirupati would start admissions for the first academic batch 2015-16 with an intake of 120 students.    

Mentored by IIT-Madras, the two institutes will offer limited options in BTech —namely Civil, Computer Science, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, with 30 seats across each stream. Classes are slated to begin in August 2015. IIT-Madras said students would find the academic experience on a par with other established IITs in the country.  

Till a director is appointed by the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development for these new IITs, the director of IIT Madras Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthy would act as the mentor director. Senior IIT-M faculty members Prof PB Sunil Kumar and Prof KN Satyanarayana have been appointed as professor-in-charge for IIT Palakkad and IIT Tirupati, respectively.  

“We are on schedule with all arrangements to receive students at IIT Palakkad. Apart from the infrastructure, we are also ready with faculty, teaching assistants and all other necessary academic support, said Prof Sunil Kumar, professor-in-charge, IIT Palakkad.

Satyanarayana said Tirupathi IIT is strategically located in the Knowledge and Industrial Hub that Andhra Pradesh Government is developing around Tirupati.

The sites for the permanent campus have been identified for both IITs and the respective State Governments are in the process of handing over the land.

Ramamurthy said each facility will come in 500 acres of land and investment would be around Rs 800 crore to Rs 900 crore per campus.

The two new IITs will start functioning in temporary premises of sufficient size with adequate hostel capacity. Around Rs 40 crore invested in the temporary.

Students can avail themselves of IIT Palakkad and IIT Tirupati as an option while filling their online choices from June 25, 2015. Classes at both the IITs will begin during the first week of August 2015.